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TIL Diamonds are relatively abundant but their price is high due to artificial supply restrictions

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Y79jP TIL that Earth’s oxygen is primarily produced by the ocean.
Ejp0 TIL That on 12th September 2001, the day after 9/11, The Queen ordered her Royal Guards to break protocol and play the USA’s National Anthem for stranded Americans in London
7jxb TIL Mr. Yuk was chosen by asking children what images they liked best. Mr. Yuk almost always was least liked by kids.
wLb71 TIL The Tarim Mummies (Which date from 1800BC to the first centuries BC) discovered in Xinjiang, China are Caucasian, likely speakers of Indo-European languages such as the Tocharians
VBpXk TIL in 1985 the Supreme Court ruled that Long Island is not an Island, but a Peninsula!